The Cruelest Day
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| Directed by | Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani |
| Cinematography | Giovanni Cavallini |
| Music by | Paolo Fresu |
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The Cruelest Day (Italian: Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni) is a 2003 Italian biographical drama film directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani. It is a dramatization of the last days of life of RAI journalist Ilaria Alpi and of her cameraman Miran Hrovatin before they were murdered in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 20, 1994. For her performance Giovanna Mezzogiorno won the Nastro d'Argento for best actress.